Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

Scarlett Johansson: Griet

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• [after bringing meat for the birth feast] 

  Pieter : Not even a smile for my pains?

  Griet : Not today.

  Pieter : Come on.

  [she refuses] 

  Pieter : I shall put it in the book, then: "Owed by Griet: one smile."

  [Griet gives in and smiles] 

• [to Vermeer, after seeing her own portrait for the first time] 

  Griet : You looked inside me...

• Griet : [enters the room, where Maria Thins and Catharina sit quietly by the fireplace, and curtsies] 

  Catharina : Yes?

  Griet : Madam, shall I wash the windows?

  Catharina : [Scoffs]  You don't need to ask me about such matters.

  Griet : It's just...it may change the light.

  [both Catharina and Maria Thins stare at Griet questioningly] 

• Griet : Good morning, madam.

  [curtsies] 

  Catharina : Don't speak until you are spoken to.

• Vermeer : [Describing his newly arrived Camera Obscura]  See this? This is called a lens. Beams of reflected light from that corner pass through it, into the box, so that we can see it here.

  Griet : Is it real?

  Vermeer : It's an image. A picture made of light.

  Griet : Does the box show you what to paint?

  Vermeer : It helps.

• Pieter : Don't get caught up in his world.

  Griet : I may only be a maid, but I would NEVER give in to Master Van Ruijven!

  Pieter : I wasn't talking about Van Ruijven...

• Pieter : No smoke without fire, they say.

  Griet : Is that what you think?

  Pieter : No. You're only a maid, what can you do?

• Pieter : Don't rush away, Griet. Please. Leave the house. Join me and Pa in the meat market.

  Griet : I must get back.

  Pieter : I'll fetch your things. I'll send someone.

  Griet : No.

  Pieter : Our own life, Griet. Answering to no one. Marry me.

• Griet : You do it.